Republicans court the Teamsters

Under Republican control, the Senate HELP Committee held a cooperative hearing where GOP members invited Teamsters chief Sean O’Brien and explored collaboration on labor, immigration, reindustrialization, and worker‑centric tech policy. This departs from decades of performative, maximalist labor bills that rarely moved and hints at a pragmatic lane for reform. — A GOP–union thaw could realign labor politics and finally move long‑stalled labor‑law changes that shape bargaining power and industrial policy.